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Hillary's Experience

I have been gaga over the Sarkozys and I love the idea that Cecelia is a role model. We shouldn't demand more from our first spouses. We should demand less. Or nothing at all.

A Hillary question from Rudy Giuliani. He said:

 "Honestly, in most respects, I don't know Hillary's experience. She's never run a city, she's never run a state. She's never run a business. She has never met a payroll. She has never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people, much less even hundreds of people. So I'm trying to figure out where the experience is here. It would seem to me that in a time of difficult problems and war we don't want on the job training for an executive..."

A fair criticism of most senators running for president, it seems to me. But isn't Hillary a solid exception to that rule, given her experience in the White House?